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Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2018
Public media produces a public good in the form of social cohesion. Generally, countries with strong social cohesion enjoy better security, economies, and qualities of life. CBC-Radio-Canada has long used technology to bring Canadians together, against all the forces that drive us apart. Recommendation Systems are just such a technology.
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Public media produces a public good in the form of social cohesion. Generally, countries with strong social cohesion enjoy better security, economies, and qualities of life. CBC-Radio-Canada has long used technology to bring Canadians together, against all the forces that drive us apart. Recommendation Systems are just such a technology.
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Intercultural Education, 2014
In the last few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of some social sciences researchers to adopt a broad definition of diversity (including, for instance, not only cultural values, but also gender, age, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation) and to use this term as a synonym of "the other", the non-ego.
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In the last few years there has been a growing tendency on the part of some social sciences researchers to adopt a broad definition of diversity (including, for instance, not only cultural values, but also gender, age, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation) and to use this term as a synonym of "the other", the non-ego.
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Social cohesion: from research to practice
2017This chapter highlights the need to put research results into practice through policy recommendations. This was a key concept in the WaVE project; it is a multi-layered idea, characterised by at least four dimensions: people's trust, help and cooperation with each other; people's tolerance towards each other; people's sense of belonging in the social ...
Olav Helge Angell +3 more
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Social Cohesion Effects on Spatial Cohesion
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1981A systems analysis of groups implies that strengthening the social bonds among group members should increase their spatial cohesion, that is, moving to avoid an invasion of the group's space. Male and female subjects (N = 48) received false information that a female confederate had very similar or dissimilar opinions. Afterward, subjects walking down a
Eric S. Knowles, Mary A. Brickner
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Social cohesion and the evolution of altruism
Games and Economic Behavior, 2015In this paper we propose a stylized model to study how cohesion may affect the spread and consolidation of altruism in a large population where agents are involved in a local public-good contribution game with their neighbors. We show that, if the contribution cost is moderate (neither too high nor too low), cooperation can invade and dominate the ...
García Martínez, José A. +1 more
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Lifelong Learning and Social Cohesion
2013An extensive literature has evolved, particularly in the United States, around the notion of social cohesion. This literature marks a shift away from sociological ideas of the past. It reflects the profound economic and social changes that societies have undergone in the last 30 years under the impact of successive crises, the development of market ...
Dumas, Audrey +3 more
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1984
Social cohesion is the outcome of the social and physiological processes through which individuals become linked into social systems. These linkages, as they occur in social relationships and are found in small group interactions, are the common focus of this collection of essays.
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Social cohesion is the outcome of the social and physiological processes through which individuals become linked into social systems. These linkages, as they occur in social relationships and are found in small group interactions, are the common focus of this collection of essays.
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